Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and their kids. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/congress-wants-hand-your-parenting-big-tech

The UK gov has today published the Joint Intelligence Committee report, presented at COBRA, called “Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security”.

Findings include “every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (confidence rating HIGH)”

The report is worth a read as it basically lays out how the next decade or two are going to play out.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

duckduckgo has a yes or no ai poll going now and lmao

https://duckduckgo.com/vote/

Donald Trump's stupid ass drove the United States within spitting distance of war with NATO allies, and now he just wants to put that toothpaste back in the tube.

Y'all, my neck is doing rather poorly from all this whiplash.

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909™️ and his urgent mission to save the timeline from an evil dictator!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/01/21/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-urgent-mission-of-percival-dunwoody-idiot-time-traveler-from-1909.html

A House committee issued journalist Seth Harp a subpoena for his reporting.

He’s been falsely accused of “leaking classified intel.” And now, a GOP lawmaker wants him prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

This is a chilling attack on press freedom. Watch FPF's Trevor Timm explain.

Do Europeans really want to make a difference in our shit show of a country? Then sanction any and everyone with an R next to their political affilation. Also, the blue dogs too, just to be safe.

I have tremendously underestimated the value of giving my kids access to collaboration tools in Nextcloud. We can collaborate on an upcoming trip with full plans and details, all done privately on a cheap computer on our home network.

This is pretty fuckin' sweet.

Brey, we're already setting up the precise conditions in our concentration camps, that lead to the Holocaust. They didn't snap murder Jewish people right away, they did this - put them in cages and then created the conditions that would kill them. It was only when they realized that would take too long, that they resorted to Zyklon B.

https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee

You're scared? Not nearly as much as you should be. And it's not a reason to say "I can't."

Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Here's mine.

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI

📲 When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel "Peace" Prize to warmonger Donald Trump to thank him for bombing her country, it showed how the prize is a tool of war that serves Western #foreignpolicy interests

The winner is very often a #US -funded regime-change activist who tries to overthrow independent governments deemed "authoritarian" by #NATO

#geopolitics #nobelprize #nobelpeaceprize #research

Video analysis by Ben Norton 👇🏽

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ow1WRl0Axw

“[Amazon is] doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said at #CES2026, as reported in Men's Journal. https://www.mensjournal.com/news/amazon-ring-ai-doorbell-humiliated-award-no-one-wants-worst-in-show

So it begins.

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer.

Europe holds $8 trillion in USA bonds and equities. This is just the beginning.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/danish-pension-fund-akademikerpension-to-exit-us-treasuries-93CH-4455284

#USA #Dump

#Oxfam regularly publishes #inequality reports highlighting how global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small group of billionaires and how oligarchy is re-emerging. These are important and useful reports. What I find hard to reconcile, however, are the hefty salaries and perks Oxfam pays its own staff and executive directors worldwide. Some of them are based in the Global South, yet their incomes place them squarely within the global south's 1%.

And this often touches a raw nerve. The usual refrain is that their CEOs and Executive Directors earn far less than corporate CEOs. Of course they do. But why compare yourselves with the top 1 per cent? Why should the Executive Director of a non-profit earn several hundred times more than a daily-wage worker in that same country? What moral standing do you have to speak about #inequality at all?

"Trump🚨has made it so that half of American citizens who marry ppl from other Cs are now💔barred from bringing their husband & wives to live here.

Americans are the victims here, as well as their IMM spouses.
-A R-Melnick

"Starting Wed,💔 HALF OF ALL LEGAL #immigrants, incl half of all spouses & minor children of US citizens, will be barred from obtaining IMM visas to come to the US legally.🚨A cruel & foolish policy that'll harm Americans."
-D Bier
#Sadism #Immigrants #Visa #DHS #DOJ #DOS #USPol

In New York, USA. 🇺🇸

An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/cash-for-care-covenant-house-city-council-homeless-youth-income-experiment/

Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates:

Bonfire 1.0.1 is out! 🎉
This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first delivery from the maintenance work funded by your incredible support. Thank you for helping us reach this milestone and keep Bonfire thriving!

For details about the release see our latest blog post: Bonfire 1.0.1: Building Momentum

What’s next for crowdfunding?

If you're an existing backer, the pledge manager is now open. Please keep an eye out for updates there so we can start preparing rewards for you.

The campaign is open again for the next month. With core maintenance funded, every new pledge (or increased pledge from existing backers) now goes directly toward our first stretch goal: federated groups. Support or share our extended campaign to help fund community-owned, cross-instance spaces for real collaboration and self-governance.

Bonus good news: Thanks to a new grant, end-to-end encrypted messaging in Bonfire is now funded and in development!

Thank you once again for being part of the Bonfire movement! Your feedback, support, and community spirit make all of this possible. If you have questions or want to get involved, reach out or come say hello at FOSDEM if you’re in Brussels at the end of January!

With gratitude,
The Bonfire Team